Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Depp Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always your coach. Today is episode number 232. Stay tuned.

Hi all my dear friends. How are you today? I have had a very interesting weekend. I'm actually doing this podcast a little late. And to be really, really honest with you, which is what I like to do, I was going to

run and repeat podcast this

week because I was doing a Pemishodran retreat online and I wasn't sure that I was going to

have enough time to be able to get a brand new podcast out to you. But I have to tell you what

happened. I just finished the

retreat, and I am so inspired to want to share something with you. Because one of the main things

that Pema shares and that Buddhist philosophy shares is that in the end, as a human being, we want to be

of benefit to other human beings.

And that is one of the things that I took away from this online retreat is that I was so

inspired to be able to help my own mind better and to be able to hold my own self in a better

light.

And I learned a lot about that this weekend. And I couldn't stop myself from wanting to share some of these with you today while I am as inspired as I am.

And to know that Pema's teachings go back thousands and thousands of years, this Buddhist

philosophy, these Buddhist teachings. And one of the things that she said today is that she feels

like she's the interpreter for Westerners on Buddhist philosophy and on the teachings that she

learned. And now I kind of feel like I'm the

interpreter of Pema, who's the interpreter of Buddhist philosophy. I'm now the interpreter to my people

to help them understand their minds better because everything I teach is all about learning how to manage your mind,

learning how to allow your own feelings to come through and to stop using food as a way

of not allowing those urges to come through. And it's everything that she teaches.

You know that especially in my last couple podcasts, I've been

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